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Pension is Deferred Wage, not a Charity
The pension of the private sector employees will shoot up under the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS), thanks to a Supreme Court ruling which has dismissed a Special Leave Petition filed by Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) against the judgement of the Kerala High Court. The High Court had asked the retirement fund body to…
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Media has Failed to Put Forth the Transformational Changes in India
The amount of work that Narendra Modi has done in the last five years is mind-boggling and unimaginable for any government to do in country and population of this size. It will take years for the researchers to properly comprehend and evaluate it. Almost every household in the country has now got toilet facilities, which…
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Hundreds of Hindu Women are Converted to Islam Every Year in Pakistan
Famous Pakistani journalist Khaled Ahmed, who is a consulting editor of News Week Pakistan has recently written a very touching story about the abduction, forceful conversion of two Hindu girls, Reena (14) and Raveena (16) and their marriages with two semi-literate Muslim boys in Sindh. However, it has failed to evoke any significant response in…
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Who listens to Lachhaman Singh?
I read a heart-rending story of a father of martyred Jawan of Indian Army, in the ‘Indian People’s Congress’ being edited and managed by the Supreme Court Advocate Shreepal Singh and written by Wing Comdr Venky Aiyer. He says that I informed Lachhaman Singh Rathore “Deeply regret to inform that your son…
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Death Sentence to Continue in Rarest of Rare cases
Those who have been advocating that ‘capital punishment’ should be completely taken off the statute must be disappointed by the judgement of the Supreme Court in ‘Khushwinder Singh vs. State of Punjab’ case. The Court reiterated that the death sentence will continue to remain valid in the ‘rarest of rare’ cases. In the previous…
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Non-existence of Rama to His Bhakti by Rahul’s Family
Rahul Gandhi and his younger sister Priyanka Gandhi are trying to prove that they are better Hindus than thousands of others. Let them live in their own make-believe world. In Hinduism, there is no place for a demonstration, and this is one of the reasons that a person who exhibits by his/her…
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Modi is the Only Glimmer of Hope
One often wonders whether the multi-billion fraudsters like Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi could ever have thought of fleeing the country if Modi Government had not been in power. These cheats had been freely roaming about in the country without any fear of the law and plundering the people. Obviously, they were enjoying the patronage…
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Priyanka’s Temple-hopping Genuine or fake
If somebody wants to go to any temple, why should any objection be raised by anybody? If Priyanka Vadra Gandhi has decided to take a dip in the holy Sangam, pooja at the temple of Baba Vishwanath in Varanasi and darshan of Maa Vindhyavasini at Vindhyachal, it should not be the cause of stomach-ache for…
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Will Artificial Intelligence lead to Immortality?
Yuval Noah Harari, who is still in his early forties has taken the world by storm by his three wonderful books- ‘Sapiens-A Brief History of Mankind’, ‘Homo Dues- A Brief History of Tomorrow’ and ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’. He is an insightful historian. The way he has analysed and thrown lights on the…
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SC Saves Six Innocents from the Brink of Gallows
Death penalty or capital punishment is the highest degree of punishment to be awarded to an individual under the penal law of any country. It has been in existence since the inception of the State. There has been an intense debate in India whether capital punishment should be abolished or retained. Article 21 of the…